#1723 (#015)

that would be a dream:

to write anything for cash/

make potboil stew

#1722

a scarecrow poet

standing in view of The Strand

hopes not to repel

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Written for the November Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Autumn season word, Scarecrow.

#1721 (#014)

steam and not a mist

only rising where there's sun

i feel so bumbazed

#1720

scarecrow cremations

fill the air so they can fly

as they dreamed they would

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Written for the November Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Autumn season word, Scarecrow.

#1719 (#013)

all the word-music

all the flowery language

was just paper lies

#1718

android neighborhood,

10:22: a sudden

alarm, the shutter.

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From words on page 16 of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop in With Love from The Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, translated by Eric Ozawa (Manilla Press, 2024).

#1717 (#012)

big pillowy bowl

easing me into the day

Dutch baby breakfast